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I'm only half way through it and it's literally terrible.
Back in the 90s, when this album was at its peak, I never gave it a second thought, mostly because it was too commercial, and I was deep into the underground scene, so I thought I was above it. Now that I’m older and (hopefully) more mature, I still find it pretty sleazy. Maybe it carried more weight when this album came out in the late 90s, but it really hasn’t aged well at all. That said, I’ve heard way worse albums out there.
Cultural appropriation at its worst.
First three songs are ok, rest of the album is just filler
What the fuck.
My introduction to Kid Rock was getting History of Rock because I liked the way Metallica's Sad But True was sampled in American Badass. I never listened to this album other than the two(?) hits. Pretty entertaining :)
Whoever produced this album did Kid Rock too many favors. It's not great music, has some pretty self absorbed lyrics, but it's fun. Small bias cause this came out when I was in high school and songs from here played at every party. Sometimes its nice not to think too much about it.
Favorite Track: Bawitdaba
Take the worst parts of rap, rock, and country, give it lyrics like: “goo-goo, gah-gah, I gotta lotta, Time to eat MC’s like a piranha.” And you get this abortion of an album. This could potentially be the worst thing that came out of the 90s.
It's actually the first rap album that I don't switch off immediately. It reminds me a bit of a cross-over album. I don't need to hear it again and life without this album or Kid Rock wouldn't be any poorer. At least I hope to be able to categorize Kid Rock in the right genre in the future. 2/5
Brabo
I can't bear to say that I enjoyed this one anymore.
No way will I listen to this POS!
I thought I’d cringe (well, to be fair, I did cringe), but the music was a lot more enjoyable than I thought it’d be. Quite a lot was recognizable too. Kid Rock was more ingrained in my mind than I imagined.
Every gym bro had this playing while pumping iron in the late 90's. I wonder how differently this album would be seen if Bobby Shazam had a better world-view. I hadn't heard anything except the first two bangers. If your favorite album couldn't beat this one to get on the list, you should probably question your listening choices.
I don't like this. It's boring and loud and generic. But I'm not giving it one star as - I think - it's not a terrible example of what it is. Even if it's not to my taste.
Impressively braindead. Almost entirely worthless. I wasn't able to get through an entire song.
Honestly, weird. Just didn't do it for me. Some songs were actually quite unenjoyable for me, some weren't too bad. Not in a hurry to re-listen. Fav song: Devil without a cause?
Fuck this pussy ass loser
Precisely as shit as I expected.
Ve och fasa vad cringe och kass
Fun, didn't listen much
I forgot how good this album was. Hit after hit and super high energy.
Can’t get behind kid rock. Sorry to all the Detroit folk out there
started off really strong but honestly just drags on too long
I debated not listening to this on principle alone but I’m a completionist so I did. The opening track, Bawitdaba, isn’t bad, but the rest of it is tedious. I guess that’s a literal kid on Devil without a Cause?
# 403 : I see nobody loves this, I don't hate it, I just Didn't Make it all the way through with out skipping here and there. Another album which makes you reconsider whether there are as many as 1,001 albums you must listen to before you die. There's much better 'music' out there to be sure.
If you ignore the insipid uninspired asinine country equivalent of gangster rap lyrics, the production is actually really fun and enjoyable. Danceable and vivacious, until you listen to any lyrics, then you cringe too hard to have fun. Every single song is a loser's anthem.
I think we can all agree that if were a ranked list this would be #1. Glad this is on here; definitely a landmark album. Why aren’t there more albums as good as this one? Where can I find more of this?
I thought I’d give this a higher rating. Outside of the big songs, the rest aren’t good.
Very likely the worst record on this list, like I seriously can't imagine anything else on this list being worse. It's insulting, annoying, and way too long. I never want to hear Kid Rock's stupid voice ever again. Favorite track: ... 0.5/5
Fun to listen to despite his modern day Trumpist politics XD
I'm doing my part to bring this Album where it belongs o7
Just no.
Besides that, this is that stinkin' scumbag, this album is abysmally bad.
I'm so happy I get to help make this the lowest rated album on the site! Lets get it down there
His political views aside, this is a solid album. Some parts are quite explicit ("Welcome 2 the Party" I think), but the rest is good rock.
Nicht mal Trump mag das
Kid Rock is like if Woodstock ‘99 was a person. This is music for young, straight, white men who are really angry that they aren’t allowed to beat up women and minorities like their grandfathers were able to. I’m embarrassed that this is on this list and to have listened to it.
It's not horrendous, though some tracks did force a skip from me for being awful, which is rare for me. But the try hard attitude of it is cloying, and am to often your want to term whoever is speaking reaping or singing to just stop, please.
I liked this stinky trashbag of rap-rock-n-country a lot better than I expected to. It is front-loaded with hilarious hard-hitting classics. But when the Rock went soft on 'Only God Knows Why', I felt uncomfortable because I had finally heard the worst song of all time.
Thoughts before listening: Man what a bummer to get this album today. I was really looking forward to having something good to listen to. I was 17 when this came out so I was Kid Rock's target demographic, and I hated it back then. Something tells me my opinion won't have changed much over the past 27 years (!!!), but I guess we'll find out. Review: Yeah I still hate it. The nu metal scene was embarrassing at the time and it's even worse looking back now. These lyrics are just so lame...who thought these were cool? I really hope that listening to this album doesn't screw up my Spotify algorithm. Also it's hard to look past the fact he has now become the guy my father in law loves cause he shot guns at a case of Bad Light after they had the audacity to create an ad with a transexual in it. 1-star for the music and Kid Rock as a person.
1001 albums to hear before you die, including 850 albums to make you question the credibility of whoever made this list.
Another rap-rock album, another 1-star. Just not enjoyable for me at all. Can't wait to get Limp Bizkit and add another 1 to my collection.
I would rather listen to my own funeral. 0/5
Kid Rock sucks, but the music actually slaps a decent amount.
"You've got to be kidding!" was my reaction to seeing that this album had made the list. The ironic distance needed to listen to this album must be the size of the Atlantic is all I can think contributed to its inclusion. I start playing it on the streaming service and notice Kid Rock is sitting at a little over 5 million monthly streams and I've had a crisis of identity as someone who once thought he had good taste in music. And yet, 1 minute in I knew it was the world that was insane and my initial response to Kid Rock and his music has always been sound. This record is trash. There are better celebrations of hedonism and the Dionysian spirit than this.
70 minutes of this annoying persona is crazy
Why did it have to be Kid Rock? That guy's a complete jerk. This album isn't much better; it's just Limp Bizkit but worse. There are 2 good songs: "Only God Knows Why" (slightly ruined by autotune) and "Black Girl, White Guy" (tells an actual story)". I also liked Eminem's guest appearance. 2 stars for "Devil Without a Cause".
*expletive-laced review follows* Get this flaming maggot-haired shit cart of a human being off of this list. Fuck. This.
It was good. Not sure if I would listen for the second time
too full of himself
Do we have a negative rating available? This faux country/rap/rock crap didn't sell when were in college and it doesn't now.
Why have Homo sapiens prevailed on this planet over more intelligent species? This album will make you see to contemplate that.
The first song is a slapper! This is how you open an album! Love how almost every song has the explicit [E] in it, hehe. Child voices rapping profanities is... an interesting decision. Not a good one, though. Autotuned cowboy singing is also a strange thing. It was alright, but its age is showing in its cracks.
You've gotta be fucking kidding me
This is rough. One of the worst albums I think I've ever heard. It's incredibly misogynistic, crass, and it isn't even that fun to listen to, except for maybe F*** Off with Eminem, who I also think has a lot of those same issues in this era. But the worst sin thie commits is that it is insincere. There is no genuinity here and it comes across like an insensitive teenager who just learned the word hoe. It actually worries me that people listen to this and think it represents them, because it's just so low, I can hardly imagine meeting a person who behaves like the lyrics state in person.
Other than feeling like I’m listening to the anthems of the cultist Trump votership, this album is too long, too soft (for what it’s trying to be) and generally, too shit. Starting off with the... interesting Bawitdaba and title track (complete with genius lyricism of “3 foot 9 with a 10 inch dick”, you’d be hopeful for a change of pace by the middle of the album, but no. Mr. Rock attempts to rally listeners to his cause with a hatful of “come on!”s and “my name’s Kid Rock”s, to no avail, as we’ve basically been listening to the same song for 45 minutes at this point. Then there’s a full switch-up with Only God Knows Why, and only God knows why he decided to place this awful ballad into his otherwise rap-rock heavy album, especially as it’s followed up by Fuck Off, something I’d like to say to Mr. Rock and most of his loyal listeners, if you’re reading. And to Eminem too, who just had to make an appearance, didn’t he. So edgy! And Jesus Christ, the TWELVE MINUTE Black Chick, White Guy is some of the creepiest commercial music I’ve subjected myself to. But hey, he hates the wokes! He says what we’re all thinking! Rock for President!
i didn’t listen to a second of it. as i once heard in a particularly awful song, “ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live!”
This album is not great, but doesn’t deserve to be in the bottom 10. It’s listenable, although I tend to hear the music above the lyrics.. 2.5/5
haha bawidaba
It's January 1st 2025 and this album probably sums up what the year will be: Fucking garbage.
Just think. There are people in this world who consider Kid Rock to be the peak of musical excellence. I'd imagine he has fans worldwide. Anyway, register to vote.
The band carries majority of the album. First half is pretty solid latter half kinda really sucks except for black chick white guy
Catchy songs but the flows/rhymes recall Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. The samples reference all kinds of 70s bad taste.
This really isn't *that* bad, although it does sound like music that'd play during the credits of a Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil movie... For a gutter-tier rated album I expected much, much worse.
I think there's a pretty good rock band playing on this - there is one good song on here, worthy of mi "Like" list.
Yeah, no, this is trash.
I normally try to push politics aside when reviewing albums but... for just so many reasons... fuck kid rock. That said, I did relisten hoping to have some of the fun I had in middle and high school when this album was popular but... fuck this thing aged like eggnog in the sun in July.
Houmous & Chutney wrote an album for a bit of fun back in the 80s. We called it ‘Music For Idiots’ and was just a bit of a dig at the manufactured music world. We never knew that the record label big dogs actually gave it to Kid Rock. 1.1
hard to rate this one objectively, it's probably a solid 2 but yeah
Entertaining! Why is this hated?
Fuck yeah.
Pretty solid, but a bit too hard for a workday track.
Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause" was a surprising gem! While rap-rock isn't usually my thing, this album proved to be fun, engaging, and surprisingly enjoyable. Though not something I'd revisit, it definitely exceeded my expectations. 4/5
excuse me?!
Today, I learned kid rock grew up on an extensive property with orchard and horses. His dad owned multiple car dealerships
Embarrassingly I have one of these songs on my main playlist already - Fuck Off (feat Eminem) - Which even more embarrassingly I always thought would be a good fit for a wrestling theme ————— If you’d told me this was a concept album where a rich kid bully got his emotionally distant father to fund him a shitty rap rock album recording and during the release party a sewage truck sprayed the popular kliq. I’d easily believe you. Rubbish.
As expected, this mostly sucked, but I did laugh out loud at "Used to call me funny/ when my nose was fucking runny/ Now i'm fuckin' bunnies/ gettin' fuckin' Matchbox 20 money" and it was still a more musically and lyrically competent album than Chocolate Starfish, so the streak will continue!
Album #988 and I finally get Kid Rock. Well, let's get it over with. I've never listened to any so let's see what I've been missing. OK not as bad as I expected, but that's not saying much, it's still absolutely terrible and also offensive. First song was faintly familiar. Only God Knows Why was godawful and would make this a one star album if it wasn't already. Yeesh.
Fuck this TRUMP ass licking clown
First track actually goes hard Followed by the fucking monstrosity that is Cowboy. Why dude Bro someone get their two year old away from this man why is a child rapping on here Labelling this as metal is a disgrace to the genre, it's more butt rock Only God Knows Why must be the literal worst song I have ever listened to. Not an exaggeration. I really, really tried to like this because I thought it would be funny to piss everyone off by playing it infront of them but fuck me, that was BAD. Easily the worst album I've had so far. I'd rather rip my toenails out with my bare hands than listen to this shite again Oh and just when you think the torture was almost over, and you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, he drops the n word. Fucking hell lmfao
70 minutes of cheap, tacky, hacky, proto-hick hop. This is really as bad as it’s made out to be in this community.
I tried to listen to this with an open mind, reasoning that this had some importance with regard to pioneering a genre. I was familiar with “Bawitdaba,” only tolerable for its inclusion as a joke in a Workaholics episode. While I suppose the blending of country, rap, and rock is supposedly noteworthy, this album just felt like a shitty imitation of groups who’d already done it better, performed by some wannabe rich white boy who wants to pretend he’s “hard.” The music is uninspired, the lyrics are juvenile at best and intolerable and offensive at worst. This is coming from someone who used to listen to Easy-E’s “fuck my baby’s mama” regularly (to be fair, E tags the end of that song with “wait, hold up, this is messed up”), along with any other number of degrading misogynistic shit. I don’t like Eminem, but at least the man is both genuine and can rap (and will regularly call out his predecessors in the genre). Also autotune country, wtf. I kept waiting for him to drop the N word. I was hoping maybe he wouldn’t, but given how this trash went, I was disappointed but not surprised by the last track-12 minutes of recycled stereotypical narrative BS complete with the N word. This album is some straight garbage, made by a man who has continued to prove himself garbage. The phony and the fake you can’t hang with, Mr Rock, is indeed yourself.
I'm actually shocked this isn't the worst album on the list, but that doesn't mean it isn't still bad, terrible even.
Halfway into first track and to say it's not what I expected is a massive understatement. All I had previously heard from these is the one that ripped off the music from the Warren Zevon classic 'Werewolves of London'. Having said that though this isn't too bad so far. We'll have to see how the rest goes. Well... I was surprisingly impressed right up to the point where he started to actually sing, and to start with he did really well then the auto-tune kicked in and RUINED EVERYTHING!!!! It knackered the whole album for me. It's lost 2 points because of it. Can only give it 2 now.
2 stars. Musically decent but lyrically suspect.
In places this is pretty good, but in places it's about as dire as it gets, eg 'Cowboy'. Some great Nu-Metal stuff, then why do a shitty yankie ballad and use auto tune? Only God Know Why... Pillock. As for the lyrics on other songs banging (on about) hoe's. Unoriginal and boring. Musically and vocally, as I've said, in places, it's really good, so it's got to be a high 2 or a low 3. Difficult.
I had never listened to a Kid rock album before. I’m shocked that this seems to be critically lauded. The lyrics are juvenile. The band sounds amateurish. The production is awful. Confounding.
I have never listened to this album before, but know the singles. Deciding to do this project was for exactly reasons like this - to listen to more music I may have ignored, overlooked or disregarded. But in this case fuck this, Devil Without A Cause is absolutely as awful as I had always assumed it would be.
2/5
Major douchebag with douchebag music. Honestly, if rich white trash made music. Rap infused with rock but sucks ass. 2/10.
The first few songs were bad. The rest of the album was even worse! Don’t like the aggressive, limp bizkit cover band playing at a country bar, nu-metal mashups? Good news! You get to hear kid rock auto tuned to hell singing some slow jams too. And if you got through the first hour of the album and thought “it’s been bad but at least it hasn’t been racist”, that last song will shatter even those expectations. Silver linings: I never have to listen to this again!
Sounds like trailer trash Beck. Wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but I didn't make it through the last few tracks.
Faith No More sprinted so Kid rock could copy them. I’ll admit I owned and listened to this album. I even saw him in concert back in the day. I am also from the Detroit area and we heard a lot about Bob Ritchie back then. I also later learned that the man who claimed to be so street and “trailer park” smart was actually raised in a mansion by a father who owned a large car dealership. His rewriting of his personal history aside……I gave this entire album another listen as I had not done so in decades. The nostalgia feelings this invoked aside…..this album sounds dated and, at times, cheesy with lots of male bravado cliches. Not the worst…….but definitely not 5 stars. Would I ever listen again? No. Would I tap along to one of these songs on the radio? Possibly. I wonder if Eminem has any regrets about his involvement?
i don't doubt that kid rock was capable of sincere friendship and love for rap and for his detroit scene, but this whole record is the most brazenly insecure poser shit i've heard in my life. so much of the output is literally just kid rock trying and failing to sound hard and cool, and any redeeming value is either lifted from other artists or contributed by them directly. that this was popular or influential to anybody is almost certainly less due to the product itself and more due to the distinct edgy landscape of the late 90s desperately, cynically seeking to fill some faux-rebellious void. this sucks.
1.5
I wish Kid Rock wasn't such a misogynistic Republican because this album really does slap. Love the mix of genres. I was debating giving it a 5-star but there were a few songs on the second-half of the album that I didn't love and found to be unnecessary.
The best thing Kid Rock has ever done is make really shit music, therefore saving us from really annoying "separate the art from the artist" discussions. Not only does the art suck ass, the artist sucks even more ass. Gonna be a 0/5 from me for this future Republican nominee for Secretary of State. I don't even like "Rage Against The Machine". Having to listen to a way shittier, misogynistic version of that for a whopping 70 fucking minutes had me feeling like I'm strapped to the Clockwork Orange chair. Save the turtles.
For the most part, terrible.
This is easily the most unexpected rating I've given, and I'm approaching 650 albums. I knew this album was on this list. I've seen the "Worst Of" list, and I was waiting for it with my one-star rating queued up. Then I hit play. OK, so the first two hits have held up pretty well. The one about trying to EASE my MIND is just sort of stupid, and the slow ballad has a comically poor overuse of Autotune. But two legit hits. A lot of albums here would be envious. Before I go any further, I'll acknowledge that Kid Rock has become a sleazy MAGA peddler, shooting at Bud Light because he cannot legally shoot at transgender people. And no, he wasn't from the trailer park in Detroit. But, to be fair, he was more gracious after the 2024 Trump victory than, well, pretty much all Republican politicians. And regarding the fake backstory, maybe it's just a character. I mean, I'm like 75% sure that David Bowie wasn't actually from outer space. 60% sure. So maybe Kid Rock is doing his low-rent version of the Thin White Duke. The Skinny Pale Dude. Anyway... OK, so then I got to the deeper tracks. Track three has someone - maybe a midget, maybe a 9-year-old, bragging about having a ten-foot dick, which is a level of absurdity that I thought was amazing when I heard Alex Harvey. The next song includes a sort of weird Yelp review for jumbo shrimp when you visit New Orleans AND a confession that he loves mowing his lawn, but secretly gets high before doing it. There's like three songs where he admits that he doesn't have any hit songs yet, but really hopes he gets one. And none of this comes across as purely stupid. He has one song where he basically tells bigots to die and go to hell, which I can get behind. Some of the lyrics are pretty funny. And I always like it when musical acts tweak the formula a bit, and rock-rap is definitely something different. A really good range of cameos, and I'll be damned, he ALMOST pulls off a '90s rap album that doesn't have stupid skits and poorly-aged homophobia. Almost. But I was surprised at how much he dodged that latter bullet. Does the album have its drawbacks? Hell yes. Gets really samey on the B side. One of the songs resembles 80s rap lyrics in the absolute worst way. He somehow hides that he can pull off having a decent voice by overproducing the vocals to sound like a Cher parody at times. Two of the hits are simply not good, one of them is laughable. This is not a roaring success. But... it WELL exceeded my expectations. Three stars. Could've been four, but he'll have to settle for three. He'll be OK, as he'll probably be appointed as the Ambassador to The Netherlands because of weed and the deep and worrying unseriousness of this upcoming presidency.
Ooof…I really wanted to hate this, and there isn’t much that I can get through without something that says, “Oh right, Kid Rock”. “I Am the Bullgod” *slams,* but you can’t get through it without some ear bleach handy. Fine, he’s better than I thought when he was picking Skynnard’s corpse. But the lyrics aren’t truth; they’re just gross.
I don’t like kid rock and this didn’t help very much. Hard R n word at the end for some reason
I told myself I will not be swayed by the negative comments before listening, but honestly, I see why so many people hate this album. Politics aside, this has got some nice riffs if you're a fan of the early 2000s rock sound, but since I personally really despise that period in rock music, this wasn't doing much for me. I was not a fan of the lyrics either, 'cause I'm not really into listening to someone brag about: A) their money, B) fucking everything that moves, C) hiding ten AKs in their basement, D) being a raging incel. I thought this album could be hiding some good stuff after all once the ballad started playing, but the overprocessed vocals killed anything positive I had to say about the song. To be honest, even if I turned my brain off and pretended the obnoxious rapping and lyrics didn't exist, there's nothing particularly memorable about this album. I debated whether to give this a one or a two, but in spirit of solidarity and because that man is awful, it's going into the bottom tier.
this sounds like no expense has been spared at the weed and bacon grease budget
I didnt love this album but also dont fully understand all the negative reviews either. Nu Metal has never really been my thing but I got into the groove on a couple of songs. Kinda want to give it a 2 but cant quite give it a 3. Too bad 2.5 isnt an option.
BAWITDABADABANGDABANGDIGGYDIGGY
Bawitdaba is a banger but the rest of the album is truly terrible.
This album is way better than I anticipated, but still impressively bad. Kid Rock cannot rap to save his life, but the beats are sometimes okay-ish. The (terribly short) Eminem feature was the highlight of the album by a long shot, if only for a break from Kid Rock.
Laid back and irreverent, this is kind of fun.
This was some hot shit at the time. Now it's aged like dog shit.
Kid Rock sucks, as a muscian and a person. Don't give him your money by streaming this garbage. Unless, of course, you're into d!ckhead rock then, by all means.
Asshole
Yesterday I quipped that an album called Rock Bottom was the rock bottom of this list. I was mistaken. Devil Without A Cause is the rock bottom of this list. P.S. My theory that any artist who says their own name in a song makes bad music survives another album.
Musically it was mostly fine, although it was too long. But I just get annoyed at an artist constantly acting like a victim. He just wants to believe that he grew up in a trailer so bad.
I said I'd go into this one open minded, because hating it is the done thing, right? It starts off actually pretty good. If you get rid of the self-mastabatory calling out of his own name, the opening track 'Batwitdaba' is actually a really solid nu-metal song. If Rage had released it, people would go nuts for it. Admittedly I unashamedly love nu-metal, so that commendation only goes so far for the average Joe. Even the second song 'Cowboy' is worthy of credit - it's not trying to be anything other than what it is. It's corny as hell, but in an almost endearing way. Aaaaaaand then the rest of the album arrives. By this point I was thinking "surely people haven't got this album so wrong??" and tragically I was right. What follows is some fairly decent instrumentation, some interesting ad-libs, sound effects and even choral interludes which make for an varied listen. Unfortunately all of that hard word is accompanied by misogynistic lyrics, truly awful usage of autotune and one part where a child brags about how big their dong is, so I can't defend it any more than that. Is it the best album ever? No. Is it the worst album ever? Definitely not - it's just the result of someone with mediocre-at-best talent being handed far too much money and attention. Edit: Oh my God I just listened to the last song on the album why did he think this was a good idea????
I should hate this album. Kid Rock is alloathsome character. The album is juvenile and even for the time the rhyming is a notch better than a 1990s TV show special trying to be urban to get the drugs are bad message across but it somehow works.
Ik heb Kind Steen altijd een flapdrol gevonden, maar dit album begint eigenlijk wel leuk. Huismerk Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine uit de budgetbak van de Aldi, Zack de la Rochmwoah, Korny (padoempats), tweedehands Beasty Boys. Daarna hinkt het op en neer tussen een soort flauwe nu metal en hick-hop. Vanaf dan wordt het ook een enorm lang album met enorm nietszeggende nummers. Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat track 3, 4 en 5 exact hetzelfde zijn. 40 minuten van dit was echt meer dan genoeg geweest, maar Kind gaat voor een dikke 70 minuten. Hij heeft daarvoor echt veel te weinig te melden, en dus verdwijnt bij mij langzaam het stukje goodwill dat ik hem na de enigszins verrassende opening nog wel wilde gunnen. Hij beitelt en beitelt tot er steeds minder punten overblijven. Af en toe druk ik stiekem een keer op next (wat ik bij deze lijst zelden doe), maar dan lijkt zich weer grotendeels hetzelfde riedeltje af te gaan spelen, totdat je aankomt bij die knetterfoute autotune track. Een wandelende identiteitscrisis, ongemakkelijk. Twee sterren is meer dan genoeg.
2.7 2x definitely some bangers here that were cool back when i was in high school, but even then it was a little cringy and still is. would be a 2 star at best if not for nostalgia
Is this some kind of sick joke?
Artiste inconnu. Les premiers morceaux sont plutôt entrainants, avec un son metal plutôt bon et une voix type hip/hop que je n'apprécie en général pas. A peu près à la moitié de l'album le son métal disparait, et il ne reste malheureusement plus grand chose sauf les travers hip/hop, avec des morceaux longs, très répétitifs et inintéressants. Après on a quelques morceaux pompés sur RATM en beaucoup moins bien. Puis un slow avec un autotune atroce que je n'ai pas supporté. J'ai arrêté ici, je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5
Beforehand I thought people were a bit harsh. But damn, this really was a crass perverted mockery-version of his obvious inspirations (RATM, Beck, rap music etc.). Actively dislike his persona. Never again.
This was actually quite good. I am not sure how random it was popping up the day after Trump won the election but I am going to choose that it was. A bunch of hits and a pretty unique sound for the time.
It feels a bit like the 1001 Generator is giving me the middle finger by making me listen to Kid Rock on Election Day. It is musical in places and catchy in others, so I'll give it two stars. That said, there is zero innovation, it's entirely derivative, and a great case study in a white person selling black music to white people.
Again, rap is not my favorite genre. Found this easier to listen to that more urban stuff. Good song elements...
couldn't this have waited until album #1,001? if you couldn't tell by that remark, this was the album which, beyond any other, I was most dreading having to listen to for this. Kid Rock may be one of the first contemporary conservative grifters; despite his bougie upbringing as the son of auto tycoons, his more recent music deliberately appeals to the sensibilities of a particular kind of Republican voter, the kind who drives (or wishes to drive) an oversized pickup truck with which he (and it's usually "he") never hauls anything other than his own ass, and only ever to work and the grocery store. you know, the sort of guy who imagines himself as rural despite living in a major metropolitan area? Rock's grift has gotten more obvious over time (especially in the Biden years), but a lot of the right-wing signifiers he hit us with on "Don't Tell Me How to Live" are also present on Devil Without a Cause, his breakout album. it's brash, crass, trashy and politically incorrect, and makes no apologies for any of that; unfortunately, like most self-styled "provocateurs" on the right who make it their bread and butter to talk a never-ending stream of edgy tripe, hardly any of it lands hard enough to really be all that offensive. that's true for his anti-COVID "Don't Tell Me How to Live", and it was just as true here: his music is too terrible to even be offended by. he even drops the N-word on the closing track, and raps on multiple songs about holding it down for "Dixie" (he performed in front of the battle flag of the Confederate States of America, a modern symbol of white supremacy, with some regularity up until just a few years ago), despite being from Michigan, and you kinda just roll your eyes. considering that his recent political signaling has resulted in him basically being banished from any and all polite company, it's hard to feel all that sorry for him and the ever-declining popularity of his Pimp Cowboy brand. conversely, it's also tough to muster up much ire for the Kid; however, I have plenty of anger for the music he has created. the public eating this up, that's one thing. but critics, too? enough for some of them to tell me I need to mark this as essential listening before my death?! that's unthinkable, almost unforgivable; it's certainly an insult to the intelligence of anyone who decides to partake in this challenge. I'm all for hip hop and rock music coming together, but only if they're both done to a satisfactory level. think of the Beastie Boys, or Rage Against the Machine, or Death Grips in their later years. hell, even Linkin Park. on Devil Without a Cause, the rock never rises above the level of corny pentatonic hard rock and heavy metal schlock. the riffs are universally limp and lifeless; even the shittiest Limp Bizkit albums, the ones without Wes Borland, run circles around this. the country nods are similarly terrible, and now part of me has this terrible feeling that, if Rock didn't (somehow) have a smash commercial and critical success on his hands with this, we might have been spared the whole bro country trend. Kid Rock is also, bar none, one of the worst rappers of all time. his flows are embarrassingly rudimentary, and his lyrical abilities are basically nonexistent outside of the knowledge that the ends of his lines must, to one extent or another, rhyme. Eminem's verse on "Fuck Off" is an oasis in the midst of the Sahara the rest of the album's rapping presents, and even he would only make good music for, like, four more years after this! the thing that I think truly gets my goat with this album, though? most of these songs are about absolutely nothing. booze, drugs, sex (sometimes implied to be with underage girls?), partying. great. not like we already have exactly one billion much better songs about those exact things! and when Rock does try to maintain a topical focus, it's mind-numbing. you want to be a cowboy? again, you're from Michigan. you think the mother of your daughter is a slut? you should probably unpack that one with some professional help. "Only God Knows Why" gestures in the direction of dealing with some personal issues, but again, it's hardly about anything at all. if you're a rapper, you should be able to know how to tell a story, and the only song here that does tell a story ("Black Chick, White Guy") has a terrible story, and it's still a terrible song. "Devil Without a Cause" is an apt title, but not in the way I think Kid Rock wanted it to be: this music feels utterly pointless. easily the worst rap rock I've ever heard in my life, and I'd be very surprised if there's an album in the book that's worse than this. 0/10.
This racist dickhead can fuck off
For a rap album the music is better than others I have heard here and the rhymes are the usual kind of trash. 2 stars or D+ which is as high as I go for this genre.
nope, absolutely refuse.
Good lord I did not enjoy this at all. What cringe strange music. It's like Red Hot Chilli Peppers at their worst. But worse with strange gangster rap type stuff thrown in there. The autotune slow song was so cringe and wank I couldn't bear it. This was deeply unpleasant to get through
God lord this was AWFUL. All over the place, terrible genre. The rapping was just terrible and vacant, just talking about random stuff then insulting some women then slapping in some bass guitar. Absolute tosh. Kid Rock looks like the worst person, like he grew out of a petri dish of terrible american values.
why is kid rock on this list. 1/10
Juvenile and unpleasant.
10/10…nu-rap metal
Terrible stuff, he can’t sing, his music sucks and he supports Turmp. Total crap. Would give it less than 1 if I could.
This deserves negative stars. What a piece of shit album. He’s a disgusting human who creates garbage music.
Trodde nästan det skulle vara sämre än det var. Fast bra är det ju inte.
Not my kind of music. Its Not bad just not mine.
Nu-metal and rap metal are not my things. Fifteen years ago, when I was starting actively listening to music, I would probably give it a 1 star. Today I was about to give it 2. Just before I did, I wanted to read up a bit more on him, and watched the 1999 Woodstock recording of the bawitdaba. And, damn, how pure it was back then. 90s might have started the downfall of music industry, but were a hell of a decade. Final answer: 3 stars - mostly by the comparison to today's music's lack of authenticity and enthusiasm.
I can't listen to him anymore, he has turned into a such a d bag
Get it off the list and forget it ever happened
I refuse to provide any white supremacist and right wing hater with additional income, even the pennies that Spotify pays their artists. But looking at the song list of the album, I don't have to listen to it, to know its redneck trash. I'm honestly confused what Kid Rock is doing in such a list in the first place.
This is the 921st album I've rated. And it's quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard. Absolutely dreadful.
Ugh, this is as if someone mashed together the silliest kind of braggy hip-hop with the most annoying kind of country and generic rock.
selten langweilig .. egal ob hip hop, nu metal oder country.
Da sind wir jetzt beim schwierigen Thema wie abgedriftet und politisch verwirrt ein Künstler sein darf bevor er gecancelt werden muss. Musikalisch finde ich die Platte gut auch wenn mit Beigeschmack.
I usually like genre fusions but not this. Some of the music was good, but the lyrics are just embarrassing, trying too hard to be edgy.
Yikes
Every day, we stray further from God's light. Kid Rock, of course, is an alternative name for Epstein's Island.
J’refuse
Competently played garbage.
Well, this isn't really how I wanted to spend a beautiful Friday in October, but my date with Kid Rock is finally here. I know the first two songs off of this album, but the rest of it will be new for me. This album came out right as I was starting eighth grade, but I don't remember really being very aware of it until maybe a year later. In the summer of 1999, I went on a trip to New York with my middle school theater group, and while we were there, I saw a strip club called the Playpen near Times Square, and it cracked me up, so I snapped a picture of it. Some time later, I was looking at a friend's copy of the booklet from this CD, and low and behold, there was the Playpen again. What a wonderful time to be a young teenager. Anyway, let's get after it! Eh, this was about what I expected, and while I didn't enjoy it, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The mashup of different styles is pretty unique, and I honestly don't mind Kid Rock's rapping; his enunciation and flow work really well with the music from the backing band (Uncle Cracker? I had no idea he was on this album, although looking at his personal life section on Wikipedia, I guess he fits well with Kid). The samples used on this album were pretty good too, especially on "Wasting Time," which samples Fleetwood Mac's "Secondhand News" (one of my favorite songs). "Cowboy" has to be one of the dumbest songs I've ever heard, but damn, I do enjoy listening to it, because it's got a great groove, and the lyrics are incredibly catchy. The biggest thing working against this album, other than Kid Rock's personality, is that the lyrical content and themes are just really off-putting. I almost feel like a hypocrite for saying that, because I've enjoyed the gangsta rap albums I've reviewed, but there's an air of trying too hard and phoniness that permeates everything Kid Rock is saying. Is some of that due to what we know about his personality in the present? Sure, but I think even in 1998 that most of this had to feel pretty forced and performative. This isn't the worst thing I've ever heard, but I don't have any desire to come back to this. However, if "Cowboy" starts playing, I won't be hitting 'skip,' unless my kids are around.
Horrendo. Espantoso. Me puso de malas y no entiendo por qué un disco así está en una lista como esta.
Not even 1.5
Wow, this was tough to get through. Like the worst parts of nu-metal, rap, and country mashed together, with some especially jarring autotune bafflingly thrown in. I was surprised to recognize the first two tracks, as I’m not at all familiar with Kid Rock; they’re not good songs, but it’s pretty much all downhill from there. If that’s not enough, it’s also so long? Why?!
i wouldn't like to meet the kind of people who like this stuff... Some of the hooks were ok but it was filled to the brim with dodgy lyrics or production choices that put a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't completely hate the music, but the lyrics are not exactly the best. Actually, the lyrics are awful. It's Rage Against the Machine but not as good.
Tom mc Donald before Tom Mc Donald.
First song: "I want to listen to Rage against the machine" "We have RATM at home" RATM at home = Kid Rock The rest is a total embarrassment. Edgy rap rock that I can live without.
Never listened before and not bad at all Worthy of 3.5 stars if that was an option
Gloriously crude and trashy – by design, obvs, and near-perfectly executed along those lines. But this is not at all one's thing, rap-rock being utter cultural detritus, a low point not just of pop music history but all of Western Civilization.
A alr mid
Terrible cheeseball rapping about how hard he rolls and how he gone go platinum with his homies in the back Eg I never was cool with James Dean But I be hangin' tough with my man Jim Beam And the music doesn’t redeem it. Cheesy rock riffs as if played by disinterested and underpaid session musicians. How was this shite universally acclaimed is beyond me.
Pari hyvää rallia, muuten paljon tuubaa. Ja Kid Rock on pölö.
Rating low because the lyrics are stupid, the music is meh, and Kid Rock is not a great human being. That said, I can't give this a 1 because I've definitely heard worse.
Total fucking dick.
If I could give zero stars I would
Other than the two inescapable songs on this record it was not particularly remarkable.
No thanks I'm good (I have actually heard this before, so don't take that as me not listening to the album at all. It just sucks and I don't want to hear a song like Black Chick White Guy or Ode 2 the Old School ever again. Pretty reasonable I think. Why's this on the list?)
You've gotta be fucking kidding me. 1/5
I was dreading this day for a long time as I learned early on that this album was included. It took 1,056 days but here we are. My apprehension was quite warranted. I knew I hated the 3 big singles as well as some of the deeper cuts that kids used to sing along to on the bus to school back in the day. Funny thing about that: back when I was in middle school I wanted this album but never got it. I probably would've liked it back then, but I find no nostalgia or enjoyment in this now. The lyrics are gross. I hate them so much that it could get a 1 just for that. The music isn't always terrible, but it is most of the time. Kid Rock definitely isn't a great singer or rapper though and the auto-tune on Only God Knows Why is laughable. Honestly, I dont care about Kid Rock's politics which seems to be a bug source of his hate these days; but I have hated his phoniness for a long time. The guy has always come across as so inauthentic and trencd chasing. I font think he has a genuine bone in his body and that has always rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah this is a definite 1 and should've never been included. There were better representatives of the rap rock craze of the 90's. Some, for better or worse (emphasis on worse), made it to the list. This album deserves to be left in the dustbin of history.
What RATM must sound like to people who (really really) hate RATM. Except, Kid Rock has none of the backbone and none of the finesse needed to pull a genre like this off. I mean I'll give it to him, RATM aside, not many groups have been able to successfully pull the rap-rock genre off. The RHCPs barely scraped by, probably thanks to Flea and their restraint when it comes to spoon-feeding their listeners this specific sound. Limp Bizkit is...well Limp Bizkit but at least Limp Bizkit is somewhat fun to listen to. I won't comment on a group like Linkin Park given I haven't heard a full record by them - but Chester and his singing were always the stars of that group. Anyways fuck this album, and fuck this appropriating hick wannabe rapper who made me sit through this shit for 70 minutes. The production has some redeeming qualities and whenever Misty Love comes in, it's like an ear-cleanser - but what's the point when the choruses are this painful, everything is so overblown in the mix, and the verses are so boilerplate to the point of parody? Like I'm confused why is this on this list? Perfectly good Saturday morning stained by this shit.
3-
Nope. This rests neatly between the steamy bottom layers of a 3-day outdoor summer concert porta-pit. Fuck this twat.
Wasnt expecting to like this as much as i did but i enjoyed it the whole way through. Grooves were cool and kinda rage-esque. Where u at groove was sick. The lyrics were outrageous and hilarious.
I loved this. I do not agree with his politics. Devil without a cause is incredible. So is the opener.
Ugh a poser with sexist lyrics who really wants to pretend he grew up atruggling. Two songs that are catchy, one lifts the chorus from Busy Bee the rapper, the other sure does sound similar to I Want To Be A Cowboy.
With no due respect, fuck no. 1/10
Goo goo ga ga
This is my 463rd review so far. I've averaged 372 words per review. Today, I just can't be bothered. Seriously. If the preceding 59 minutes of yelled dross hadn't made me want to bite my own ears off, one scan of the lyrics of "Black Chick White Guy" was enough to make me commit to a one-star rating. Zero art, zero class, zero flair. This is class clown antics disguised as music.
I mean I guess it kinda bangs but it's hard to overlook who this guy is and everything he has done since
Borderline two stars for the repetitive, testosterone-inspired lyrics, but enough catchy (NFL pregame soundtrack) songs to earn a third.
First few tracks were entertaining, but the album progressively devolved into garbage.
Better than I expected
Absolute trash
Bad white-boy rapping, misogyny, racism, asinine lyrics, thinking saying “fuck” a lot is edgy, musical incohesiveness, bad autotune, AND awful bloat?! All in one album?! All from a noted Terrible Human Being?! Yay!! Surprisingly does have some highlights (namely every time Kid Rock shut his mouth during “Fist of Rage”) but those highlights don’t outweigh the idiocy. https://kamalaharris.com/
Fuck Off
Musically, genuinely not the worst thing, but the album is too long. Lyrically aged horrifically in some places and atrociously in others🤢.
Kid Rock is not seminal, he's derivative. This album is filled with samples from famous tracks and name drops in the lyrics to make it seem like Kid Rock has something interesting to say. I did listen to the whole album to give this artist--that I already knew I disliked--a chance to have his voice. I wasn't impressed. I see the argument that Cowboy invented the country-rap genre. Like Elvis, Eminem, and Vanilla Ice before him, Kid Rock profited by appropriating the ideas of black artists at the time and showing them to a larger audience. Is that something to celebrate? I doubt he collaborated or raised up any rap artists with his work. I don't like the persona, the values he represents, or the music he puts out.
Parts of it want to be RATM, part rap, mostly just corny
Devil Without A Cause is an album I've been dreading for a while. I do not like Kid Rock and I knew this was going to be an obnoxious listen. Everything about Kid Rock outside of his music straight-up sucks, so his music probably sucks too. The album opens with the only single that I was previously familiar with, Bawitdaba. I hate to admit that this is a really good opener that hypes up the rest of the album. Despite the terrible lyrics and nonsensical chorus, it is particularly well-produced and has good riffs to back it up. Unfortunately, the rest is trash and should be discarded. When Rage Against the Machine did rap rock it was cool, mostly because there was more of a message. Kid Rock is just a moron.
Complete piece of shit.
Wish I could give it less than one star.
Ignoring who Kid Rock became, this shit sucked when it came out and it sucks even more as it has aged. Misogynistic drivel peddled by a rich kid who wants to act hard.
I knew this day would come. Approaching so bad it's good territory but it's still bad. Even my limited nostalgia from hearing this shit back in 98 (in high school ugh) when it was new can't save it. Joe C. had way to small of a part, his rap is hilarious. Also the Bud Light has turned him gay.
Dude, too many of your songs sound the same. And stay away from my daughters.
Never heard this album, but have heard "Cowboy". Just insultingly bad. Perhaps it's on this list as a cautionary tale. Never forget, lest this might happen again.
I could have rated it higher if I was feeling generous, but come on, it’s Kid Rock.
Ahahaha, it had to happen, and lo, 'tis today. Possibly even funnier is the review assuming most people who think this is awful are American Redditors - as in you have to have already had your head turned to not want to claw your ears off when subjected to this. I try really hard to be objective when it comes to music but seriously, this is just trash music. I listened all the way to the end and it was consistently shit. Worse than that Limp Bizkit one. Cannot understand anyone other than 14 year old boys liking this.
Crap
Listened to as much of this as a trip to run errands would allow, ending it on track 7 of 14 and that will be enough, as I'm sure there are absolutely new depths to discover from this steaming turd of an album. Kid Rock is a moron, and a very boring moron at that. As least some of the music caused a little bob of the head, hence why it's 2 stars instead of a much deserved 1.
Ooh look at me I’m kid rock, I’m a cowboy, I smoke the whisky and drink the weed, ooh I see women as nothing more than hoes and bitches, ooh I do the same rap over and over with a noodley guitar. What a wee fanny.
Garbage cliche elementary lyrics with instrumentation that is 10 years too late to what Rage was doing a decade prior from a brain rotted MAGA sycophant. Fuck this guy and this album.
I have given listening to this a second thought as I didn't want Spotify to judge me and fuck up my algorithm. Fuck kid rock and fuck this trash record. I did listen. It sucks.
Redneck crap that's not even worth a county fair.
How is this the 7th worst rated album on this list, and not the 1st?
2nd star is just for the idea to cross country‘ish and rap‘ish music. Overall not my thing
FFS. I get it. This guy existed. Now he shoots beer cans against woke culture. What a flog. Anyway, here goes. Bewptidabsa, or whatever it's called, is probably used by the CIA to interrogate tried suspects. Cowboy is aspirational, but not very. Devil Without a Cause is... Bad. I have stopped listening and may well take several days to recover my IQ. ZERO stars if I could. One star because I have to.
30% Best: N/A Must-Hear? Fuck no, worst shit I've ever heard
Just so bad.
Quite possibly the worst record of all time & definitely not worthy of this list.
Not a fan
I have actually already listened to this album 1000 times when I was a young white trash boy growing up in Indiana. Listened to it a few months ago in the kitchen for nostalgia. Did not need to hear it on this particular evening. Thanks 1001 think we can drop this one for almost any other album ever made. BUT I GOTTA GIVE IT UP FOR MY BOY KID FOR THAT EARLY USE OF AUTOTUNE 👏🏻
I had a fine time in middle school. But it is about the LAST period of my life I'm nostalgic for. I honestly thought to myself at the beginning of the title track that I was listening to a scared eighth-grader's ranting when the little kid started screaming and confirmed it. The production warrants a 3. I appreciate extending the lane that Rick Rubin carved out on Licensed to Ill But the vocals...I feel dumber for having listened to this.
I remember so many of these tracks! Enjoyable back to history.
um his aesthetic is silly. unfortunately I can only appreciate this sort of thing ironically...
I wasnt aware he sang "Bawitdaba" and "I am the Bullgod"!!
Had a feeling this wouldn't be great, good instrumentals on a few songs saved this from a 1.
I expected to hate this and was very pleasantly surprised. A bit too aping of beasties Ill Communication but otherwise really solid. This album was pushing 5 for me until the insanely bad vocoder schlock rock abortion of Only God Knows Why. Bad enough to knock a star off. Re-listen later with less distraction, I liked the music but very much didn't like the misogynistic and mostly pathetic lyrics. Musically, 5*. Lyrically 2* star. Vocoder ballad -1.
2 Intros including 1 minute of singing is all I could take
No está mal pero no es para mí, y después de leer todo tipo de reseñas sobre este disco, llegó a la conclusión que Kid rock cae mal por lo general, da igual que hiciera rap que canto gregoriano, en general para mí no me parece tan malo, y tiene alguna cancion curiosa pero seguramente no creo que vuelva ha escucharlo en la vida.
are you fucking kidding me
This album is much better than expected. There's a required end-of-the-90s-auto-tuned song that ruins this album...
if herpes had a soundtrack.
Aright, I’ve heard enough. About halfway through and that’s all the Kid Rock I can take. I knew this album, or at least a lot of it, from when it came out, and he always just make me kind of nauseous. I can hear the greasy hair. I guess as the kids today say, he gives me the ick.
# Playlist track - Cowboy # Notes - Let me start by saying that I have no goddamned idea of what the lyrics say. I listen to these albums while working or doing something else, so it doesn't really get to my head. - I'm mentioning it because folks seem to thing it's REALLY shitty, and there's no way in hell that I'm listening to it all again just to make sure. - The album sets with the right foot. It's energetic, and have a pretty cool beat. - "Cowboy" instantly takes me to listening to MTV on my grandmother's house. - Mid-album it has become repetitive already. - When the ballady track and the bunch-of-talking one hit, I want to stop listening. - It's kind of experience for folks my age to take a listen, but not a very good album to be honest.
I would give this negative stars if I could for this trash.
Horrific album and even worse artist.
Skipped this one. Not going to listen to a jackass collection of trailer park anthems.
Albums You Must Hear Right Before You Die so you can be at peace leaving a world where this dogshit is considered essential listening. And that's even without knowing present day Kid Rock. If I were to believe that we needed some redneck pimp's raprock in our lives, I could accept the album's first couple of tracks as surprisingly serviceable. From a historian's pov. After all, stuff like this was, regrettably, a thing back in the days. But then, circa halfway through it becomes mere music to smash empty beercans on your forehead to. And then: worse. Fade to today's Kid Rock, licking his fingers, 𝘴𝘩𝘭𝘱 𝘴𝘩𝘭𝘱, as he flicks through mp3s on the laptop of the dj booth he bumblingly took over, 𝘴𝘩𝘭𝘱 𝘮𝘩 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦, on some TFG Jr's party and we arrive at the bottom line: This is grossly dumb shit by an absolute cockwomble and the world would be a better one without it.
Nice mix of rock and rap. When it comes to the instruments, they don't disappoint, making it as heavy as a metal band.
This started out a lot of fun. I realise that right now, he’s a Trump supporter and has worked hard to cultivate an image as a far-right poster boy, but boy I liked some of these songs. I put myself into the place I was at when I started listening and got stuck into it. But after a while, the novelty wore off. The album was thin. He didn’t say or do much that he hadn’t done in the previous songs. There’s quite a few clues in there too for who he’d later become. All in all, started strong but got less and less interesting as I listened.
How did kid rock end up on this list. The first song reminds me of a car racing game my brother played on PlayStation when I was a kid. The album art work is cringe . Kid rock is a jerk . I refuse - 1 star . Sorry
lol no
Mean-spirited.
My washmachine stopped working
That was a dissapointment.... Besides Bawitdaba, there was not much to be enjoyed from the album
Why.
This album truly is analogous to America. How on earth could something with so many good ideas behind it turn out so cringey?
i will not put this on.
not listening to this shit
Rating: 3.5/10 This album is juvenile, obnoxious, and way too long. Despite this, it actually has some very good songs and some great ideas. The rap metal/rock sound has been done better before but this has some character to it at least. Kid Rock puts his own spin on the genre and he has pretty good flow, but awful lyrics and some absolutely horrendous songs. Did not enjoy it overall but not as bad as many people think. Favorite songs: Cowboy, Wasting Time. Worst songs: Welcome 2 the Party, Only God Knows Why, Fuck Off.
ew no thanks
Gross. Would give zero stars if I could.
Отличный альбом, некоторые треки очень понравились
Not really my type of music and many songs sound long and rather generic and bland.
I don't listen to wankers
i can't man
Trying to be open minded on this one. Not too proud to say I grooved to Cowboy back in the day. However i am much older now. The mesh of rock, rap and country is pretty good and it was revolutionary. His rap is decent. BUT...the lyrics are full on misogyny, racisms, reasons how amazing he is, and just tired and cliche after a while. Pair that with the fact that he grew up on a farm in a small town OUTSIDE of Detroit and his family was fairly well off. Its just poser music
The music isn't bad. It's the poetry of the lyrics that I have a problem with. He doesn't sing about anything that I care about. His songs seem to be mostly about him and how cool he is. It's pretty ridiculous. I got annoyed with it pretty quickly.
I’ve never wanted to listen to an album less, but I am committed to this project. Kid Rock is a POS, but in a quest to separate the art from the artist as much as I can, this does have some catchy tunes on it. Definitely remember a lot of them from back in the day. However, there’s also a lot of gross misogyny and it’s just generally over the top. It started making me angry as it went on, especially towards the end. And if I have to keep my car windows rolled up while driving because I’m too embarrassed to be listening to someone, that’s also problematic. Fuck Off, Kid.
No
i laughed, i cringed, i got angry, i felt confused, i judged my dad’s taste in music, i laughed again and then it was over. one star ❤️
not as bad as could be
I tried to look at this objectively, and not down rate it too much because of kid rock, but it starts mediocre, and gets worse.
Garbage human... loved this album in 9th grade though
This album is not My style.
Ok
No.
Everything else aside, this is just objectively bad, though well executed music. This genre of music from the late 90s and their albums suck. Way too long in the CD era, including remixed versions of earlier tracks on the album. I was not expecting to hit a fully auto-tuned song, and then have that followed up with a song featuring Eminem. Kid Rock is music for aggrieved straight white men, and it sucks that he is around and is figure with any cultural significance still. I was bummed to even give him the streams to listen to this. Get this off this list ASAP.
Yikes.
There’s a certain crassness that comes with the territory of what he’s trying to go with here, but he pushes it past its limits at certain points for a shock value that, as a contemporary of Eminem and RATM, just isn’t there.
Vu les critiques, je m’attendais à un véritable ramassis de chiure auditif. Ne vous détrompez-vous pas pour autant, cowboys! Ça reste un album aux paroles écrites et «rappées» par un babouin arborant des treads blond sur des riffs de guitars à la Rage Against de Machine du Magi-Prix. Malgré tout, il y a une toute, toute petite partie de moi qui avait du fun, donc ça mérite un 2.
As a big fan of hip hop I feel the need to immediately knock Kid Rock for the blatant cultural appropriation. Before there was frat rap for rich white people there was party rap/rock for white trash people brought to you by the Kid. Despite throwing up in my mouth a little bit when I originally saw that I'd be listening to Kid Rock today, there were a few bearable songs on this album. Bawitdaba is actually borderline good. But overall, this album is a turd.
Love getting two of the lowest rated albums on the site in my first 100 albums, get them out of the way I say. Initially I was a little surprised and lowkey horrified that I REALLY was enjoying the sound of the album, but it starts going downhill after the third track and steeply declines for me after the fourth. To be clear, I don't like the lyrics for any of it. I can overlook "edgy" lyrics if I feel like it's an act or for the art or w/e, but because I know Kid Rock is a POS human being it's really hard to separate the art and artist. Because I love the sound of the first three tracks so much I can't rightly rate it 1 star, but I am admittedly relieved I don't feel the need to rate it higher than a 2.
I’ve heard Kid Rock singles (edited) but this is his first full album I’ve heard. Although I never liked that rappers steal (oh no wait they in ter po late) the melodies of famous songs I think the music in this album grabs you. Which is what I like in a rock album. By side two it was pretty repetitive though. Seems like he ran out of steam after the first half. His lyrics are set around a very limited group of ideas. I’m no expert on the rap rock genre so no idea if it was a breakthrough but it was new to me. Overall enjoyable.
I’m trying to rate artists not by their politics, but by how their work makes me feel. This album makes me feel like machine-gunning a case of Bud Light. Seriously, the music isn’t bad but the lyrics are cartoonishly juvenile and asinine.
I’m totally biased, but so is he.
It was fine. I'd probably rate it a 2.5, but it's not irritating enough to get just 2.
I’m annoyed to find this kind of catchy, will not be coming back though.
I loved it as a kid. It’s okay
Kid Rock? Who in their right mind would recommend this shit?
Kid Rock can lick every inch of my old sweaty hairy balls. Fuck him and the weird fucked up horse he rode in on.
and a 1 and a 2 and a SKIP!
Kick rocks, kid.
I'm not going to waste my time with this one.
Over-produced, over-hyped, some good elements... but not quality... the industry was trying to make a Eminem clone to sell music to white kids. Not interested
The first 2 songs are not that bad - in a kitschy, nostalgic way. Then it just gets typically white guy rapping and nü metal. So yeah. . .
Ugh... I'm giving it a 2/5 because I guess there is worse -- there are some hooks and funky bass lines and stuff in there behind the trash lyrics, but overall this is cringe.
Only God Knows Why, Kid Rock has had a career as an artist. He needs to stick to boat rock, yacht rock is just a little too classy.
The best way to tackle this album is probably by highlighting another review on this site. It was a troll review for five stars justifying the score to offset all the low/1 star rankings based on how awful a person Kid Rock is and how terribly this has aged. And even with that, the reviewer couldn't maintain the facade and admitted it was truthfully not a 5 star album, but actually much worse. Even the trolls can't make excuses for this.
Kid Rock is a loser dumbfuck. That being said the hits off this album are just fun nonsense, everything else is shit. Listening to this as an adult made me realize how corny his rhymes are, along with the whole raprock attitude having all the bluster of a pissed off teenager.
Kid Rock is a hateful shit head. I went into this album with low expectations. It’s not bad. The hits are great. There’s just so much other music out there why spend your time listening to this?
LP without a Pause, Tell em about yer Flaws - I was going to give this a 3 because I like the sound of the band, but the onslaught of moronic and unimaginative lyrics finally got to me. 2/5 I tip my hat to Kid Rock and his management team for making so much money on such vacuous baloney. I understand that his dad is/was into car sales. What was that about the apple and the tree?
Enjoyed it but not really my cup of tea. For nu metal it was decent tho.
It has it's moments but overall just didn't age well. 2/5
Obviously Kid Rock is a bit of a bellend. I wouldn't have listened to this album if it wasn't for this list. And that's again the main argument for me: This album doesn't deserve to be on this list. Others blended rap with other styles and did it better. Still, I wouldn't say that this album is bad. It feels lame by today's standards but it's all right for a background listen. I was surprised to find out that Kid Rock can really play instruments and was involved in production and all that. It's an all right package. Nothing that sticks out and surely this crossover stuff runs its course very fast.
Fuck kid Rock.
I was relieved to see I wasn't alone in disliking this... knock off Rage against the machine?
Seems like lots of people hate on this one. I was there when it debuted, thought it was kinda corny but still rocked out to it. Upon re-listen, some of it still rocks, some of it cringe, but now it’s nostalgia. I remember throwing this in the discman to cut the lawn, high AF
LoL get the fuck outta here!
Deserves a slap.
it’s like rage against the machine but infinitely worse
I don't wanna waste my time listening to this lol
I don't really want to listen to this
Good fucking lord, I can't even get past the album cover. Hard pass.
Sounds astoundingly dense and powerful. Variations are small but exist in a way I wouldn‘t have expected it here. I am mildly surprised by this. Good job!
Truly embarrassing.
"White people can't rap" Kid Rock, drunk as fuck : "Oh YeEeAaAh?! HoLd My BeEeEeEr!"
* burp *